Lead Data Engineer

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Royal Caribbean Group’s Enterprise Data Team has an exciting career opportunity for a full time Lead Data Engineer reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Solutions Engineering
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The Lead Data Solutions Engineer is responsible for providing data solutions for the call center data team, including projects like telephony system migration and AI agent integration. In this role, the lead ensures that data pipelines and analytics are optimized for call center operations, enabling both batch and real‑time insights to enhance customer experiences. The lead recommends new tools, techniques, and architectures to automate repetitive and tedious data preparation and integration tasks, reducing manual work and errors while increasing productivity.

The Lead Data Solutions Engineer also develops and updates standards and procedures that support high‑quality development, testing, and production support.

• Lead the migration of call center telephony data from Avaya to Genesys, ensuring seamless data integration and minimal operational disruption.
• Develop and implement real‑time data pipelines supporting call center analytics, including agent performance, call routing, and customer satisfaction metrics.
• Integrate AI agents (Cresta, Copilot) within call center workflows to leverage data for enhanced agent productivity and improved customer outcomes.
• Collaborate with call center operations, workforce management, and customer experience teams to deliver solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Ensure adherence to call center data governance standards (PCI, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Direct data engineering initiatives encompassing the design of robust, flexible, reusable, and scalable data pipelines and frameworks that automate ingestion, processing, and delivery of both structured and unstructured data—across batch and real‑time streaming scenarios—using a diverse range of data integration and preparation tools for on‑premises and cloud environments.
• Partner with business stakeholders and data scientists to ensure all solutions are comprehensive, operationally sound, conform to business processes, and address business requirements with the agreed quality of service.
• Provide leadership on technical decisions, upholding high standards for data quality and operational efficiency.
• Create and maintain thorough technical design documentation.
• Ensure end‑to‑end solutions are fit for purpose, satisfy business needs, fulfill agreed‑upon requirements, and align with strategic architectural direction while remaining pragmatic.
• Assess current ETL/ELT industry best practices to guide adoption and development methodologies.
• Lead and mentor team members, effectively communicate technical concepts, and foster collaboration across diverse teams.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of data integration tools and contribute to platform selection and strategic discussions.
• Oversee data analysis activities necessary for troubleshooting and resolving data‑related issues.
• Proactively anticipate potential obstacles and develop strategies to ensure stakeholder requirements are fully represented in data architecture outcomes.
• Monitor the data architecture design process, including data interfaces, in compliance with established processes and standards.

• Significant understanding of effort estimation activities. Will lead large/complex…